Shark some scientists feared to be extinct found - on the menu

A shark whose species had been feared to be extinct for more than a century has been found – on the menu at fish markets across the Middle East.

Shark Conservation Society experts on a research trip to a fish market in Kuwait found a smoothtooth blacktip shark, the last example of which was found in 1902, Scientific American reports. In subsequent trips to other markets in the region scientists found 47 more of the sharks, formally Carcharhinus leidon.